Messages received during testing of a live system. Outline & Explanation of each event: Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:21 PM Subject: Jane's system: The Office Door reported a PENDING Alarm at 3:21 pm Jane's system: The Office Door reported a PENDING Alarm at 3:21 pm on Wednesday, April 20 2011. Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:12 PM Subject: Jane's system: Panel was Disarmed by Keyfob Two at 1:12 pm Jane's system: The Panel was Disarmed by Keyfob Two at 1:12 pm on Wednesday, April 20 2011. This is a monitoring message from Central Security Group. Log in at https://www.alarm.com to manage your Ref: M66712676 Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:54 PM Subject: ALARM (Jane's system): An Auxiliary/Emergency Panic Alarm was reported at 12:53 pm. Jane's system: An Emergency Panic Alarm was reported by the Panel keypad at 12:53 pm on Wednesday, April 20 2011. This is an alarm message from Central Security Group. Log in at https://www.alarm.com to manage your Ref: A24098695
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 12:46 PM Subject: ALARM (Jane's system): The Shed Three Door reported an Alarm at 12:46 pm Jane's system: The Shed Three Door reported an Alarm at 12:46 pm on Wednesday, April 20 2011. This is an alarm message from Central Security Group. Log in at https://www.alarm.com to manage your Ref: A24098401 Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 3:21 PM Subject: Jane's system: The Motion Detector reported a PENDING Alarm at 3:21 pm Jane's system: The Motion Detector reported a PENDING Alarm at 3:21 pm on Wednesday, April 20 2011. What is a "Pending Alarm" event? To prevent false alarms from being reported to the central monitoring station and possibly resulting in an unnecessary police dispatch, most security systems today are programmed with a "Dialer Delay". That means that after an alarm is tripped, the system waits (usually 15-45 seconds) before attempting to report the alarm to the central monitoring station. (Note that Dialer Delays do NOT apply to fire/smoke alarms.) Unfortunately, that delay could give an intruder enough time to break in and smash or otherwise disable your control panel, preventing it from reporting the alarm once the delay expires. To prevent a "Crash & Smash" intruder from completely disabling your security system during the programmed Dialer Delay, your system will send a "Pending Alarm" signal to the offsite operations center as soon as the alarm is tripped. This tells the operations center that a Disarm event or an Alarm event should be expected from your system within the next several minutes. If neither one of these events is received, then the operations center will issue a second, "Suspected Alarm" event and handle the original pending alarm event as a real alarm. If a Disarm event is received within the expected timeframe, then the Pending Alarm will be logged but will not generate any alarm notifications. If an Alarm event is received within the expected timeframe, then the Alarm event will be handled following standard alarm reporting procedures for your account. This is an alarm message from Central Security Group. Log in at https://www.alarm.com to manage your Ref: A24105133
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